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" Baroque art / "
Klaus H. Carl & Victoria Charles.
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BL
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592858
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b422077
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Carl, Klaus H.
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| Title & Author
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Baroque art /\ Klaus H. Carl Victoria Charles.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Parkstone International,, c2009.
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Art of century collection
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199 p. :: col. ill. ;; 29 cm.
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| ISBN
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9781844846214
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: 1844846210
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| Notes
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Series statement from jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 196) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction; Baroque in Italy; Architecture and Sculpture; Gian Lorenzo Bernini; The Fountains of Rome; Turin and Venice; Painting; The Carraccis and their Pupils; Caravaggio; Florence and Venice; Baroque in France; Architecture; Painting; Sculpture; Baroque in the Netherlands; Architecture; Painting; Frans Hals and his Time; Frans Hals' Pupils; Rembrandt and his Time; Rembrandt's Pupils; The Genre, Landscape, Animal and Still-Life Painting; Genre Painting; Gerrit Dou; Gerrit Dou's Pupils; Johannes Vermeer; Landscape Painting; Van de Velde; Jan van Goyen
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| Abstract
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The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the middle of the eighteenth century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe: the continent is dotted with magnificent Baroque churches and palaces, commissioned by patrons at the height of their power. The works of Gian Lorenzo Bernini of the Southern School and Pet.
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Art, Baroque.
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| Dewey Classification
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709.032
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N6415.B3C37 2009
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Charles, Victoria.
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